[ale] Cheap dialtone for DSL

[Benjamin Scherrey]

I've got naked dsl with Speakeasy.net. Speedfactory apparently can't 
offer this yet but if Speakeasy is available in your area then you 
should be good to go. Works great and I only pay a few bucks for the 
right not to have a land line phone. The rest is cell & Vonage.

    -- Ben Scherrey

Jason Fritcher wrote:

> Pete Hardie wrote:
>
>> ISTR seeing mention of "naked DSL" being available - DSL sans
>> dialtone.
>
>
> All the arguments I've seen about naked DSL is the fact that they can't
> recover the loop charges from the ISP. I don't see what the problem 
> is. When
> they allow a CLEC access to an unbundled loop for voice, the charge to 
> the
> CLEC includes their loop charges. Why can't they do the same thing with
> unbundled DSL? I've seen references to other ILECs this is available 
> from,
> and there is a negligible, $5-10/mo, increase for the loop charges.
>
> > Perhaps this is one of those things that they will never
> > offer, unless you beat it out of them.
>
> Heh, where's the clue-by-four? :)
>